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2 Sheets-Sheet 1., T. TYSON.

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GATE;

Patented Aprf9, 1889..

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet T. TYSON. GATE.

No. 401,315. Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

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THOMAS TYSON, OF MOUND CITY, MISSOURI.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,315, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed June 4, 1388. Serial No. 276,016- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS TYSON, of Mound City, in the county of Holtand State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Gate, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in gates, especially to thatclass of inventions called farm-gates, and has for its object to providea gate of simple and durable construction, and a simple andconvenientmeans whereby the gate may be opened from either side by theweight of the vehicle or by a person walking or riding along the road.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved device, illustrating the gate asclosed and in dotted lines the gate in partially-open position. Fig. 2is an elevation of the gate open and locked in that position. Fig. 3 isan elevation of the gate closed, illustrating the at tachment to thegate of the several ropes or chains used to open the same; and Fig. i isa In carrying out the invention a gate, 10, is pivoted to a post, 11, insuch manner that its upper hinge will be forward of the vertical line ofthe lower hinge, which gate is provided with alatch-bar, 12,1)ivotedthereto and extending above the upper rail, and with a lateh,13, adaptedfor engagement with any approved form of catch upon the receivingpost11, as shown in Fig. 3.

At each side of the gate-post 11 standards 15 and 16 are secured in anyapproved manner, the space intervening between the gatepost and eitherstandard being essentially equal to the width of the gate. Upon theinner side of each of the said standards 15 and 16 a latch-pin, 17, isheld for vertical movement in staples 18, as shown in Fig. 2,

ployed. Each standard 15 and 16 is provided upon the top with ahorizontal beam, 1!), which beam is preferably inclined upward andoutward away from the gate and over the road.

The several cross-beams .19 are provided with recesses 20 in their endsoverhanging the road, in which recesses pulleys 21 are journaled, overwhich ropes or chains 22 are passed, attached at one end to the upperends of the latch-pins 17, the other end of each rope or chain dependingfrom the beam, being provided, preferably, with a ring, 23, whichrenders the manipulation more convenient. Upon the upper surface of eachbeam 19 a pulley, 24, is j ournaled at a point near the intersection ofthe beam with the standard, and upon the under side of said beam asecond pulley, 25, is journaled, a third pulley, 26, being journaled ina recess produced in the inner side of the standard immediately underthe beam, as best shown in Fig.

Near each standard 15 and 1G spaced upwardly-inclined boards, 27, arelocated, the lower ends of which boards are adapted to rest upon theground, the upper ends, which are nearest the gate, being supported uponsuitable beams or ties, 28.

In the spaces intervening between the inclined boards 27 levers 29 arepivoted at their outer ends, the inner or elevated ends of which leversare connected to cross-bars 30, pivoted in suitable bearings secured inthe road near the elevated ends of the inclined boards 27,

as best shown in Fig. 1, the outer end of which cross-bar 30 is unitedby a connecting-bar, 32, to a lever, 31, fulcrumed upon the standards 15and 16, as clearly shown in Fig.

To the free ends of the levers 81 ropes or chains 33 are secured, whichropes or chains, passing over the pulleys 24, are also carried aroundpulleys 34:, mounted upon the upper end of the gate-post 11. From thencethe said ropes or chains are carried in the direction of the gate andsecured to the gate latch-bar12, as best shown in Fig. 1. In securingthe ropes or chains 33 to the latch-bar a transverse bar, 35, ispreferably passed through the upper end of the latch-bar and the ropesattached to eyes formed at the ends of the cross-bar, whereby an evenstrain or tension is exerted upon the latch.

A rope or chain, 36, is passed upward over each. pulley 21, under thepulley 25, around the pulleys 26 and 311', to a connection with thetransverse bar 35 of the gate, which rope or chain 36 is adapted formanipulation when it is not convenient to utilize the lever 29, or whensaid lever 29, by means of snow or ice, becomes blocked.

In attaching the several ropes or chains to the gate, those leading fromthe standard are made to pass upon one side of the pulley 3t, and thosefrom the standard 16 upon the opposite side of said pulley, and the saidropes or chains are therefore necessarily attached to opposite sides ofthe gate latch-bar.

In operation, when the lever 29 is free, a person approaching from theright in a vehicle before reaching the gate causes the wheel of thevehicle to ride over the lever 29, whereby said lever is presseddownward, as shown to the right in Fig. 2. The connecting-bar 32, actingupon the lever 31, causes said lever to exert a tension upon the rope33, whereby the gate is unlatched and carried to the left. Immediatelyupon the release of lever 29 from the pressure of the wheel t-helatch ofthe gate is brought in contact with the latch-pin 17 and the gate lockedin an open position. To unlock the gate after having passed through, itsimply becomes necessary to pull down upon the rope or chain 22,whereupon thelatch-pin 17 is lifted and the latch and gate released. Thegate, by reason of the peculiar manner in which it is hung, will thenautomatically close.

The rope 30, which is suspended from the beams over the road, maybeused, if convenient, by pedestrians or by parties in a vehicle who donot desire to drive over the lever 29, and is particularly adapted foruse when in inclement weather the lever 29 becomes blocked by snow orice or other means.

I make no claim in the present application to a gate having a forwardinclination and provided with a flexible brace, nor do I claim, broadly,a pi voted latch-bar operated by means of ropes or cords connected tolevers pivoted to the standards and to the said latch-bar, the samebeing shown, described, and claimed in applications filed of even dateand serially numbered 27 6,01% and 276,015, respectively.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination,with the gate-post havinghorizontal pulleys on its upper end and a gate pivoted to swing inopposite directions and having a latch and lever therefor, of standards15 16 at opposite sides of the gate post, having pulleys 24: on theirupper ends, spaced inclined planes near each standard, a lever, 29,pivoted between each pair of said inclined planes parallel with theroadway, a second lever, 30, pivoted at right angles to each lever 29,and pivotally connected with said levers 29 at their adjacent or innerends, levers 31, pivoted to the posts 15 16, rods 32, connecting levers30 31, and a rope or chain leading from the latch-lever in oppositedirections around the pulleys 34, thence over the pulleys 24 and down tothe levers 31, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the gate having a latch and side standards, 1516, having crossbeams 19, extending toward the roadway, of thevertically-sliding latch-pin 17 on each pc st to engage the gate-latch,and ropes or chains leading from the upper end of said pins outward overpulleys on the outer ends of beams 19 and downwardly therefrom withinreach of a pedestrian or driver, substantially as set forth.

THOMAS TYSON.

\Vitnesses:

EIDW'ARD IIUGGIN, JOHN P. LEWIS.

